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plugins/snopes.py

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+import re
+
+from util import hook, http
+
+
+search_url = "http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp_a=00062d45-sp00000000"
+
+
+@hook.command
+def snopes(inp):
+    ".snopes <topic> -- searches snopes for an urban legend about <topic>"
+
+    search_page = http.get_html(search_url, sp_q=inp, sp_c="1")
+    result_urls = search_page.xpath("//a[@target='_self']/@href")
+
+    if not result_urls:
+        return "no matching pages found"
+
+    snopes_page = http.get_html(result_urls[0])
+    snopes_text = snopes_page.text_content()
+
+    claim = re.search(r"Claim: .*", snopes_text).group(0).strip()
+    status = re.search(r"Status: .*", snopes_text)
+
+    if status is not None:
+        status = status.group(0).strip()
+    else:  # new-style statuses
+        status = "Status: %s." % re.search(r"FALSE|TRUE|MIXTURE|UNDETERMINED",
+                    snopes_text).group(0).title()
+
+    claim = re.sub(r"[\s\xa0]+", " ", claim)   # compress whitespace
+    status = re.sub(r"[\s\xa0]+", " ", status)
+
+    return "%s %s %s" % (claim, status, result_urls[0])